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Experience Preferred

Immigration Inspires Immersive Installation - Vancouver, 1998 October 29

 

Richmond Sound Design Ltd., manufacturers of sound and show control equipment,
today reported installation of an AudioBoxTM moving matrix sound source in 
Gallery One of the Immigration and Hellenic Archaelogical
Museum (Melbourne, Australia).  
 
The gallery uses an array of immersive AV technologies to convey the 
immigration experience,including interactive CD's, a Philips digital 
video store, and the AudioBox, all coordinated by a dedicated show controller.
 
The sonic environment itself uses twenty-one loudspeakers and two subwoofers
in three acoustic planes, allowing both horizontal and vertical movement 
to lend physical presence to sounds in the space.
 
Sound design and show programming were accomplished by Activated Space Pty. 
of Melbourne, led by composer and computer musician Garth Paine, 
whose most recent commission Escape Velocity was featured at SIGGRAPH '98 
and on tour through Europe, and whose previous commissions include
MaP1, Moments of a Quiet Mind, and Ghost in the Machine at locations 
throughout Australia.
 
"The AudioBox" says Garth, "is a very cost effective way of using sound to 
bring an environment alive.  The ability to change spatial positioning, 
equalization and delay on each channel in real time is absolutely 
essential to creation of engaging multimedia environments.  
As the public and our clients raise their expectations of the quality 
and dynamics of AV displays, products like the AudioBox will become 
indispensable in realizing design goals." 
 
The museum installation is profiled, with photographs, at the web address
 
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